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SYNTAX AND THE RECALL OF INSTRUCTIONS IN A REALISTIC SITUATION
Author(s) -
FILE SANDRA E.,
JEW ALISON
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1973.tb01327.x
Subject(s) - recall , psychology , syntax , cognitive psychology , social psychology , natural language processing , computer science
Airline passengers were presented with emergency landing instructions, either visually or auditorily, and subgroups received instructions of different syntactical forms. Regardless of their original form, instructions were mainly recalled in the active affirmative. Significantly fewer instructions were recalled when they were in the negative than when they were in the affirmative, but the use of the passive, rather than the active, voice did not reduce the amount recalled.